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Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Suzanne Yatim Aslam.

Suzanne is a former actor and former Miss Arab USA turned writer.

She hit number one bestseller with her new book. It's called Post-Pardon

Me, a dark comedy addressing postpartum, depression, and anxiety. The book offers support and

comfort to struggling moms, sharing an honest account of the author's experience. So I want to just

kind of go behind the scenes on her experience,

writing the book, publishing the book. Hopefully this will be a really fun episode for moms who are

thinking about writing a book or maybe women who are going through postpartum. So Suzanne, welcome.

Great to have you here. Thank you so much. Well, I guess first off, you know, you've got a, I guess, a past life and

a bunch of different things, acting, modeling, speaking. It looks like, and it looks like a lot of

experience speaking to kids as well. So why write this book? Like how does the book kind of fit in

with where you're going, brand business, that sort of thing? the book kind of fit in with with where you're going brand business

that sort of thing the book had nothing to do with any of my past lives this was a whole new life

um because i was at home with my kids i couldn't act anymore that was really hard for me i needed to

be creative and i wasn't and i was uh just coming out of my postpartum depression.

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